Kitchen utensil.



A. CHIFARI.

KITCHEN UTENSIL.

APPLICATION man MAY 7. 1915.

1,177,991. Patented Apr. 4,1916.

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'lHB DOLUMBIA PLANOURAPH ct). WASHINGTON, D. c

UNITED sTATEsr rEnT OFFICE.

ANDREW GHIFARI, OF CORONA. NEW YORK.

KITCHEN UTENSIL.

Application filed May 7, 1915.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW CHIFARI, a citizen of the United States, I residing at Corona, in the county of Flushing and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Kitchen Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combination household device, and has relation more particularly to a combined ash sifter, coal dumping and depositing de vice.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a device of the above stated character wherein the ashes to be sifted may be readily deposited within the sifting screen and discharged from the sifting screen through a discharge spout of a hopper, into an ash receptacle, after which the discharge spout being thence closed and the contents of the sifting screen, for instancethe coals contained therein are dumped into a hopper and deposited into a coal collecting device which permits of the coals being conveyed and dumped directly into the stove, furnace and the like.

-A further object of the invention is the provision of a device of the above stated character wherein means are provided for closing the coal discharge opening of the hopper during the sifting operation of the screen, for preventing the ashes from falling through the chute of the hopper and being deposited upon the floor.

The invention consists in the novel features, details of construction and combination of parts which will hereinafter be more fully set forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed. out in the apappended claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view illustrating the device-in active position for a sifting operation of the ashes. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, with the ash receptacle removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of the sifting drum, showing the closure open.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 5 denotes a hopper formed at its upper end, with a body portion 6 comprising a front wall 7, a rear wall 8 and oppositely disposed diverging end walls 9 and 10. Hingedly connected to the transverse edge of the end wall 10 of the body portion 6, as

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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indicated at 11 is a, swinging closure 12, which closes the open upper end of the body portion of the hopper and prevents the escape of the dust therefrom, created by the sifting operation of the ashes. The hopper 5 is formed with a downwardly and rearwardly curved chute 13, whose side walls 14: are curved inwardly to provide the chute with a contracted intermediate portion .15, the side walls let ofthe chute thence diverge outwardly, forming the chute with a broadened foot portion 16, the said foot portion of which is formed with a shovel-shaped discharge opening 17, formed in the terminal portion of the rear wall 18 of the chute. The front wall of the foot 16 of the chute is formed with a substantia-ly U-shaped socket 19, the purpose of which will be hereinafter set forth. I

'Journaled in the side walls of the body portion 6 of the hopper, is a transversely disposed shaft 20, saidshaft carrying a sifting ,drum 21, said drum being rotatably mounted in the body portion 6 of the hop: per and is rotated through the medium of the crank 22, the latter being detachably connected to the extended end 23 of the shaft 20. This drum comprises spaced annular rings 24 and 25, connected with one another by means of a series of relatively spaced concentric connecting bars 26. The

frame is closed at the peripheral and side portions thereof, by means of a foraminous covering 27. Hingedly connected to one of such bars 26 and adapted for-longitudinal swinging movement, is a closure 28 having its forward end reposed on the adjacent connecting bar, when the cover is in a closed position, for limiting the inward swinging movement thereof.

Formed in the front wall of the chute 13 of the hopper, is an ash discharge opening 29 communicating with the discharge spout 30. the said spout adapted to discharge the ashes sifted from the drum 21 into an ash receptacle 31, the said receptacle is placed directly under the spout 30 and between the diverging braces 32, said braces serving to fixedly support the hopper to the flooring of a building and the like, and further serving to hold the ash receptacle against accidental movement from beneath the discharge spout during the sifting operation of the drum. The said braces are secured to the flooring and the like through the medium of fasteners 33, whereby the hopper will be prevented from capsizing. The ash discharge opening 29 of the hopper is closed through the medium of a vertically slidable closure 34, said closure being provided with an operating knob 35, said knob being slidably mounted in a vertically disposed slot 36 formed in the front wall of the chute of the hopper at a point directly above its ash discharge, opening. The opposed inner faces of the side walls of the chute of the hopper, at a point adjacent the body portion 6 thereof, and at a point to opposite sides of the ash discharge opening 29, is a pair of spaced downwardly and forwardly inclined guideways 38, for supporting thereon a slidably mounted hand-shaped cut-off 39, formed with a handle portion 40, and adapted during the sifting operation of the drum 21 to be moved downwardly and forwardly in a direction toward the ash discharge opening 29, and close the coal discharge opening 41, preventing the ashes and the like sifted from the drum, to fall through the chute and onto the floor. The said coal discharge opening 41 is arranged at an obtuse angle to the ash discharge opening 29. The out off further assists in directing the ashes falling from the drum through the discharge spout 29 and into the ash receptacle 31. After the sifting operation of the drum 21 is completed, the closure 34: is adjusted down over the ash discharge opening 29, the cut-off 39 is pulled upwardly and rearwardly, the coals collected in the sifting drum 21 are dumped through the opening 41 and deposited into a coal collecting device 12, which in this particular instance, and for the purpose of illustration, comprises a shovel head 43 having detachably connected therewith a handle portion. When the coal collecting device is not in use, its handle portion is readily detached therefrom and the head 43 is stored between the foot of the hopper and the ash receptacle and retained in such position by being inserted in the U-shaped socket 19 of the foot 16 of the hopper. It will of course be understood that this operation is repeated until the contents of the drum, that is the coals contained therein, are emptied therefrom. and it is further understood that the cut-off may be readily manipulated for permitting a certain amount of coal to be dis charged through the hopper, as the coal collecting device can accommodate, and after the coal has been collected, the same is conveyed and dumped into a stove, furnace and the like, as the occasion may so demand.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection. with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates, while I have describedthe principlesof operation of the device together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such advantages may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claim appended V thereto.

lVhat is claimed as new is In a device of the class described, a hopper having a body portion and a chute formed integral with said body portion formed with angularly arranged discharge openings, a sitter journaled in the body por tion of the hopper, means for operating said Sifter, and means for independently closing each of said openings, said hopper being formed with a broadened foot portion, formed in the extreme lower portion of its front face withadischarge opening, and in the extreme lower portion of its rear face with a socket, a collector for the ho per, said collector when in an inactive position, engaging the socket of the foot, and when in an active position communicating with the said discharge opening.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of'two witnesses,

ANDREW OHIFARL VVitnesse's:

GASPARE Pnmonn,

DOGALI CARLO Covnnr.

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